There are many things that make a huge impact on people during their lifetime‚ but I think everyone can say even if they weren’t alive when 9/11 happened‚ it still has a huge impact on them. We watched a video in class‚ and I was amazed at the disaster September 11th was!! The way people pulled together and the heartache that shook the nation when two airplanes crashed into the twin towers‚ and the threat of terrorism that struck our sheltered country had to be scary. It automatically has a huge
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Eugenia Rita Lee Callie Ingram English 102 9/11: the Good‚ the Bad‚ and the Whoops Was 9/11 a big mistake? America still reels from the attack on our sense of security‚ the devastating event an abrupt betrayal of our trust in social respect. Before the act of terrorism‚ we trusted that everyone was doing what they could for the good of humankind‚ if not for the nation. With the fall of the World Trade Center came the mistrust of a religious group that gradually expanded to any random stranger on
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as Aisha Hinds said‚ “I’m a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11‚ and I saw how‚ not only New York City stopped for a moment‚ we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time‚ and it changed my life. I think millions of people were forever changed.” She’s right it did change people’s lives forever along with destroying their livelihood‚ but it also changed things in different ways too. The effects of 9/11 did not only affect the United States of America (U.S.A) and
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This is because the fire fighters played a significant role during and after 9/11 in aiding the people and directing them to safety. They also spent many days desperately searching through the rubble for any survivors. It is these actions that classify the men as “real life” heroes‚ and with the aid of film codes the viewer will understand this and respond with feelings of pride and respect for the firemen at the scene of 9/11. Symbolic codes include how the heroes become victims of terrorism; they
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Preventing 9/11: Could it Have Been Done? September 11th‚ 2001: the American people will remember this day as the day the unthinkable happened: someone‚ or rather a group of people‚ infiltrated the seemingly impregnable American defenses and turned our own airplanes on us. Crashing several planes into different important federal buildings‚ these terrorists spread terror throughout the country. Nobody thought that the most powerful country in the world could be attacked so easily‚ and
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The tragedy of 9/11 negatively impacted the United States society today. Even though conspirators say the United States let in the terrorists with open arms‚ society in the country was negatively impacted which attained maximum threat and fear to the people and economy. The tragedy impacted the economic‚ social‚ political and military groups of the United States society. The economy was negatively affected in many different ways including airports‚ what the government did about it‚ and additions
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Change after Tragedy Jamie Gonzalez ENC1102-12 On September 11‚ 2001‚ everything changed for the US. 19 men who hijacked airplanes to carry out the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were Arabs from Muslim countries. The terrorists belonged to a group referred to as al-Qaeda. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City‚ a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington‚ D.C.‚ and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania
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Globalization‚ Terrorism‚ and Democracy: 9/11 and its Aftermath1 Douglas Kellner Globalization has been one of the most hotly contested phenomena of the past two decades. It has been a primary attractor of books‚ articles‚ and heated debate‚ just as postmodernism was the most fashionable and debated topic of the 1980s. A wide and diverse range of social theorists have argued that today ’s world is organized by accelerating globalization‚ which is strengthening the dominance of a world capitalist
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attack on Pearl Harbor and the attack on 9/11 share similarities and differences. 75 years ago on December 7th‚ 1941‚ a surprise attack by the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor in Hawaii(Rosenburg 1). 50 years later‚ on September 11th 2001‚ an attack by Al-Qaeda hit New York City(Jensen 1). These two acts were very similar in their effect on the country‚ their number of casualties and warning signs‚ but had different perpetrators and rescue efforts. Pearl Harbor and 9/11 had a very similar number of casualties
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The day I realized that Bush did 9/11 About 10 years ago I had an epiphany and realized the things which for so many years had been heralded as fact are indeed untrue. Chief amongst these being that Bush was responsible for 9/11. See it became abundantly clear to me that jet fuel could not melt steel beams. As I realized the error in my ways I looked up “just how does jet fuel melt steel beams?”. And to my surprise I found no information on how it occurs only that it simply doesn’t. There is
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